TO G. V. PLEKHANOV

Published:First published in 1956 inKommunistNo. 16.

      Sent from London to Geneva.

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	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1971,

      Moscow,Volume 36,

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December 1, 1902

DearGeorgi Valentinovich,

Iwas already going to inquire why you were silent, when
I received your letter. Your requests will be fulfilled.

Whydo you say nothing either
(1) about a topic forIskraor
(2) about a feature article on
Tarasov[3]? Did you not
get my letter from Berne? Please reply as soon as possible
whether you intend to write a leading article forIskraon this or some similar theme. [As soon as possible,
because No. 28 is ready and the setting of No. 29 has begun.
In No. 28, there is a leading article by Vera Ivanovna
against the S.R.s to show that they are distorting history by
their inventions that no politicians were insulted in the
period of Narodnaya
Volya,[4]etc. The heading is: “Le
mort saisit le
vif”.[1]]

Howare your polemics with “Vladimirov” going? What
about your lecture? How are Lalayants’s and the other study
groups? What are theZhiznpeople[5]up to?

Bestwishes,Yours,Lenin

Yes,I almost forgot to say that
Lev[2]

Pleaseforward the enclosed letter by local post.

[1]“TheDead Seizes the Living.”—Ed.

[2]Thephrase is incomplete.—Ed.

[3]G.V.Plekhanov promised to analyse K. Tarasov’s (N. S.
Rusanov) article “The Evolution of the Russian Socialist Thinking”
published inVestnik Russkoi Revolutsii(Herald of the Russian
Revolution). But he did it not forIskra, but in his preface to
A. Tun’sHistory of Revolutionary Movements in Russia(1903).

[4]NarodnayaVolya(People’s Will)—a secret political Narodnik
terrorist organisation which came into being in August 1879,
after the split in the NarodnikZemlya i Volya(Land and Freedom)
society.

[5]Zhiznpeople—members of theZhizn(Life) Social-Democratic
group.